Dr. Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a Research Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and Director of the Rutgers Center for Maya Studies. She is a leading authority on Mesoamerica, especially the Maya. Her newest book, Writing the Maya Past: History, Archaeology and Society in Colonial Yucatán (University of Texas Press) is a collection of essays that synthesize her efforts to re-member the past and imagine the future from the perspectives of those who were there
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Dr. Ostriker was born in California to parents from Mexico, who met as students at Yale University. She received her B.A.
from Yale and her Ph.D from Stanford University’s Department of Anthropology, where she taught for many years as a Professor, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, and Chair of the Department of Anthropology.